[TriLUG] backup methodology

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:06, Mike M wrote:
> What works best for backing up disks:
> 
> A) tar everything; keep last N revisions
> B) tar everything once every N iterations; tar incremental changes for all 
> other iterations
> C) tar everything; keep everthing; space is cheap; labor is not
> D) something else

If you're backing up to another hard drive, either locally or across the
network:

D) Don't use tar, use rsync snapshots.

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Several options for client software there.  I'm trying out the "rsback"
script with is pretty cool.

--Jeremy